King Edward VIII
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The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most...
Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience
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In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the...
Manderley Forever
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Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced...
New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin
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This new biography is a fascinating account of the period in which Chopin lived, and the way in...
The Oxford Handbook of Hume
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The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most...
The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu
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So striking were the replies of Joshu (778-897 CE) to students' questions, that it was said that his...
The Olympic Games Miscellany
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The Olympic Games is the world's biggest sporting extravaganza with athletes from more than 200...
The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog
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HAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations. STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary...
biography comedy
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing...
biography history